A Girl in Winter: A Novel

The story of a fateful winter day in the life of a European woman who has fled to England during WW II.

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Page 36Mother knows there's nothing for it but to keep me in bed with aspirins in hot milk.
And very often I'm sick too.” “But do you have them at work?” “They don't come on
during the day as a rule. At night sometimes. Most often I wake up with them.

Page 128Knowing this, she drew her curtains back and opened each window as far as it
would go, hoping as she lay bitterly among the hot bedclothes that whatever
stillness there was in the summer night would come to her and still her
restlessness.

Page 167A Novel Philip Larkin. with their resumed assumption that this night was like any
other night, had once more awoken regret in her that she must leave them. Now
that the surface of their relations had quietened in her mind, she saw that only her
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